 Wilson was also the Sports Time voice of Big 8 basketball (1984–85), partnering with Lucius Allen.During the 1990s, he did boxing, Friday Night Ringside, with Boom Boom Mancini, including covering early Mike Tyson bouts, as well as Grand Prix Horse Jumping on ESPN.In 1997, Wilson purchased the Zanesville (Ohio) Baseball Club of the independent Frontier League and moved the club to the western suburbs of St. Louis.